Kathy Padilla has been advocating on transgender issues since 1984, when she volunteered at the Outreach Institute of Gender Studies and Transgender Week (formerly Fantasia Fair), the longest running lgbt community event in Provincetown. Sheâs been a key leader in passing local civil rights legislation, served as a delegate to the 2004 Democratic Presidential Convention, on Governor Rendellâs transition team, a Commissioner on the Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission and a member of the Mayor's LGBT Advisory Board. Ms. Padilla was a founding board member of the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition, President of OutFront!, the Interim Managing Director of the Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition and has served on a number of nonprofit boards. She currently works on business diversity development in government.

Kathy's short white paper on trans issues was posted on the Obama Transition team's web site, change.gov. You can download a copy here:
http://change.gov/open_government/entry/letter_from_kathleen_r._padilla_regarding_transgender_equality/

Join us as we discuss Kathy's blog post:
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/hate_crimes_enda_bad_bills_come_and_bad.php

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